A Season in Hakkari vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.9/10 for A Season in Hakkari). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 50m. A Season in Hakkari is the older of the two (1983 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Season in Hakkari
National Theatre Live: Antigone| A Season in Hakkari | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.9/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 1983 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | Turkey | – |
| Director | Erden Kıral | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Şerif Sezer, Zeynep Irgat, Genco Erkal, Erkan Yücel, Rana Cabbar | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
A Season in Hakkari
An urban Turkish teacher is transferred for political reasons to a backward Kurdish village in the mountains near the Iranian border. He is welcomed with distrust, but during that harsh year the mutual cultural misunderstandings fade away.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey. When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state. Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles' tragedy into the modern world as a gripping political…
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